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simianwords an hour ago

1. If AI is like other technologies, there will be job displacement and temporary upheaval after which new jobs will be created and prosperity increases - this is by far the only good way to increase prosperity

2. If AI is so good that it is a proper superset of humans and can do all jobs humans can do, this is a huge deal and we don’t even have the vocabulary to express what would happen

I don’t foresee a third option.

throwaway-11-1 an hour ago | parent [-]

the fact no one can actually describe these "new jobs" makes #2 appear increasingly more probable.

simianwords 41 minutes ago | parent [-]

You can’t have predicted that an SDE 6 in Google working on ad tech using Google spanner and optimising for SEO at 1989.

That’s why you can’t say how jobs can be created now.